Making a Difference
Amazon Watch campaigns have led to real change. Here are some recent examples:
- Increasing capacity of our partner organizations – especially in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia – to assert their collective and territorial rights and advance an alternate vision for the development and conservation of their territories
- Contributing to policy reforms with global implications at international financial institutions such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- Supporting the landmark class action lawsuit against Chevron Corporation (formerly Texaco) for its deliberate dumping of 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in a region of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest inhabited by more than 30,000 people
- Thwarting ConocoPhillips' and Burlington Resources' attempts to drill for oil in Kichwa, Achuar, and Shuar territories in Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru
- Pressuring Occidental Petroleum to withdraw from drilling on sacred U'wa land in Colombia and Achuar territory in Peru
- Supporting the Achuar in their historic resistance effort in Peru that led to a landmark agreement to end dumping of one million barrels of toxic waste by Pluspetrol
